EN : Verdun (East of France), city most marked by the first world war. More than 700,000 casualties (dead, missing or injured), an average of 70,000 victims per month over the 10 months of the battle. The day of February 21, 1916, 80,000 shells fall in 24 hours. In all, 53 million shells were fired, at least a quarter of which never exploded. More than 100 years later, the battlefield of Verdun and still marked by these 10 months of war, but above all, still polluted by various explosives. FR : Verdun (Est de la France), ville la plus ...

EN : Verdun (East of France), city most marked by the first world war. More than 700,000 casualties (dead, missing or injured), an average of 70,000 victims per month over the 10 months of the battle. The day of February 21, 1916, 80,000 shells fall in 24 hours. In all, 53 million shells were fired, at least a quarter of which never exploded. More than 100 years later, the battlefield of Verdun and still marked by these 10 months of war, but above all, still polluted by various explosives. FR : Verdun (Est de la France), ville la plus ...

EN : Verdun (East of France), city most marked by the first world war. More than 700,000 casualties (dead, missing or injured), an average of 70,000 victims per month over the 10 months of the battle. The day of February 21, 1916, 80,000 shells fall in 24 hours. In all, 53 million shells were fired, at least a quarter of which never exploded. More than 100 years later, the battlefield of Verdun and still marked by these 10 months of war, but above all, still polluted by various explosives. FR : Verdun (Est de la France), ville la plus ...

6th December 1918 🇬🇧 Private Leonard Lucraft 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment transf. to 826th Area Employment Company, Labour Corps. Son of the late John Lucraft, of Exeter; husband of Bertha Lucraft of 25 Bartholomew St. East, Exeter. Age: 29. #ww1#19141918 Until the day break 🥀